Archive for the ‘Change’ Category

Union jobs with Living Wage for All

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Verizon workers in the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and CWA (Communication Workers of America) rallied for good union jobs on Saturday July 30. They demand that the profitable and highly subsidized telcom company stop trying to take workers’ conditions back to the 19th century. [caption id="attachment_77" align="aligncenter" width="487" caption="Workers ...

ON The Shoulders of Giants

Monday, January 11th, 2010

We stand on the shoulders of giants -- the thousands and millions of working people who through the years and centuries have toiled and battled to win for us the many fruits of labor that we now see as simply standard.  Our history -- the progression of working people from ...

Health Care Reform, It’s a No brainier

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Health care reform, it’s a no brainier, and it’s called single payer.  Why is single payer better than pay-the-insurance-company health care?  Simple, insurance company’s “administration expenses” and profits add exorbitant overhead to every bill.  Time consuming paper work means additional labor for health care providers and staff.  A single payer ...

Union Democracy Now

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

That’s no thermometer, friend.  Look over your shoulder and you will see a familiar smirking face.  Yes, that’s right, it’s your union boss holding the tub of lubrication and watching exuberantly as the company boss gives it to you good.   Here in IBEW Local 827, the foreplay between the ...

The Denial Economy

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I’m tired of people giving me the “wink,wink” about the economy and the government/banks plan to “fix” it. I was talking to some dude recently and at first he was like, “We have to spend this money to get things going again.”    “Like hell we do,” says me. ...

The Emperor’s Skivvies

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

It may seem like the world is falling apart and maybe it is. But is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. I’ve been decrying the unsustainable nature of the economic system we have been forced live in for many years. I have sounded like ...